Maths for competitive

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What is the least number by which 72
must be multipled so that it is divisible
by 112?
• Take factors of 72
• These are: 2*2*2*3*3
• Take factors of 112, these are:
• 2*2*2*2*7
• Thus, we have to multiply 72 with one
2 and one 7, so ans: 72*14. ans.

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What is the sum of all even
numbers between 1 and 31?
• The first no. is 2,
• Difference between numbers is 2
• The Arithmetic progression is 2,4,6,8, …
• There are 15 terms (30/2)
• Formulae is n/2*(2a+(n-1)d),
• A= first term
• D = difference, and n = no. of terms
• which gives us: 15/2(4+(14)2) = 240 Ans.

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 What is the sum of the
following series: 1,2,4,8,16 ..
For first 5 terms?
• It is geometric series – because ratio
is fixed.
• Ratio is second term divided by first
term.
• Formulae: (A*(r^n – 1))/(r-1)
• A = first term, r = ratio
• [1*(2^5 -1)]/(2-1) = 31 Ans.

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 Sumit secured a speed of 10 on three
occasion and 12 on 1 occasion on 100
meters races around a square field. What is
his average speed in the entire race?

• Remember, use harmonic mean always

for such questions.
• Formulae for this is :
• inverse of ¼ {3/10 + 1/12}
• = 10.43 Ans.

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 21 mango trees, 42 banana trees and 56
date trees have to be planted in such a way
that each row contains same no. of trees of
one variety only. How many rows will be
there minimum?

• It is a question of HCF
• HCF = heighest common factor
• Factors of 21: 3*7, 42:2*3*7 and 56: 2*2*2*7
• HCF of 21, 42 and 56 is 7, so each row will contain
7 trees of one variety only. There will be 3 rows
of mango, 7 rows of banana and 8 rows of date.
Thus there will be minimum 18 rows.

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 What is the sum of the
series: 1^2, 2^2, 3^2, 4^2, 5^2,
6^2?
• Formulae for addition of such series
is : {n(n+1)(2n+1)}/6
• N is 6.
• {6(7)(13)}/6
• 91 is the answer.
• We can verify here :
1+4+9+16+25+36=91

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 What is the sum of the
series: 1^3, 2^3, 3^3, 4^3, 5^3?
• Formulae for addition of such series
is : {n^2(n+1) ^2}/4
• N is 5
• {(25)(36)}/4
• 225 Ans.
• We can verify here :
1+8+27+64+125=225

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 What will be remainder
when 188^276- 112^276 is
divided by 300?
• The remainder will always be zero. The
fundamental laws are:
• x^n- y^n is always divisible by x+y for all
even values of n.
• x^n +y^n is always divisible by x+y for all
odd values of n.
• x^n- y^n is always divisible by x-y for all
values of n.
• x^n+ y^n is never divisible by x- y.

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 What will be remainder
when 188^275+ 112^275 is
divided by 300?
• The remainder will always be zero. The
fundamental laws are:
• x^n- y^n is always divisible by x+y for all
even values of n.
• x^n +y^n is always divisible by x+y for all
odd values of n.
• x^n- y^n is always divisible by x-y for all
values of n.
• x^n+ y^n is never divisible by x- y.

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 get, when you divide 188^3+
112^3 by (188^2+ 112^2 -
188*112)?
• 300 Ans.
• x^3+ y^3 = (x+ y) (x^2+ y^2 -xy )\
• Other important forumulae is
• x^3- y^3 = (x- y) (x^2+ y^2 +xy )

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 Put the sets of real number, whole
numbers and natural numbers, integers,
rational numbers in ascending order.
• The smallest set here is that of natural
numbers (natural numbers don’t include 0),
then whole number (0,1,2,…) set is bigger,
integers is bigger set then whole numbers,
then rational number set is bigger and the
biggest is real number set. So the order is
:
• Natural – whole – integers - rational – real

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 What will be remainder
when 188^276- 112^276 is
divided by 76?
• The remainder will always be zero. The
fundamental laws are:
• x^n- y^n is always divisible by x+y for all
even values of n.
• x^n +y^n is always divisible by x+y for all
odd values of n.
• x^n- y^n is always divisible by x-y for all
values of n.
• x^n+ y^n is never divisible by x- y.

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